Author: ALU Editor
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Read Harder Challenge 7 & 8
Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light is participating in BookRiot’s Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series will highlight one or two completed challenges along with a list of books from All Lit Up to have you reading harder, too! This challenge…
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Off/Kilter: Interview with Paul Butler
Author Paul Butler enters the dark recesses of the Off/Kilter realm to discuss his newest book Mina’s Child (Inanna Publications), a dark, refreshing extension of the beloved classic Dracula that pulls some of it’s main characters and their offspring into the 20th century. In our chat below, Paul shares more about the novel in parallel to…
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Character Study: Brontë
Jordi Mand’s new play Brontë: The World Without (Playwrights Canada Press) is the character study we’ve been waiting for: the fascinating story of Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne unfolds in the isolated world in which they lived and wrote. And it’s full of rivalry and jealousy—this one’s a drama ripe for the silver screen. Below we…
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In Review: The Week of June 15th
This week we revealed our picks for our upcoming Summer Book Club, recommended books for Father’s Day, reflected on wise words about grief, and more.
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First Fiction Friday: Keepers of the Faith
Shaukat Ajmeri’s first work of fiction Keepers of the Faith (Mawenzi House) brings us the story of star-crossed lovers Akbar and Rukhsana, who are driven out and apart by a strict priesthood within their community in Udaipur, India. Excommunicated, the two drift apart and spend years building their own separate existences, only to fatefully meet…
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5 Reads for the #1 Dad on Father’s Day
Father’s Day is just around the corner! Here are our top 5 picks for that number one Dad in your life who deserves the best.
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ALU Summer Book Club: 2020 Edition
It’s our fifth annual All Lit Up Summer Book Club! Despite not being patio-side this year, we’ll be spending the next two months gabbing virtually with publishers and authors and each other about books — follow along with us! This year’s instalment of book club brings you a seductive, tension-filled novel and a magical, wondrous short…
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Reflections on grief, place, and mourning from the contributors of Locations of Grief
Exploring death and mourning, Locations of Grief (Wolsak and Wynn) collects essays from twenty-four Canadian writers that span different ages, ethnicities, and gender identities about their struggles and journeys relating to death. Below editor Catherine Owen asks some of the contributors of the collection to share their thoughts on grief, place, and mourning.
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In Review: The Week of June 8th
THIS WEEK: Author interviews, grizzly transformations, Pride Month celebrations, 15th century art and obsession, porta-potties turned little libraries and more!
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First Fiction Friday: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
This first fiction for author Zsolt Alapi is sure to spark the attention of anyone who loves art and literature. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (DC Books) follows a first-person account of one mans obsession with the allegory of Pieter Bruegel’s painting of the same name and W.H. Auden’s interpretation of it in his…
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Cover Collage: Pride Month
We’re celebrating our true colours for Pride Month with a collage of bright covers for books that are all part of our current Pride Month promo! Grab these titles and more for 20% OFF when you use the code PRIDE at checkout throughout June + enjoy free shipping on orders within Canada!
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Where in Canada: Bears
In Matthew Mackenzie’s Bears (Playwrights Canada Press) an Indigenous Albertan man named Floyd heads into the B.C. wilderness on the run from the RCMP after he becomes a suspect in a workplace accident. In his journey through the Rockies, he begins to take on a ‘grizzly’ new form….Multi-award winning Métis playwright, Matthew Mackenzie joins us in…
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Interview with Brad Smith, author of The Goliath Run
With writing that rivals the great Elmore Leonard, author Brad Smith delivers his newest work The Goliath Run (At Bay Press), a poignant novel that sees a mother take fate into her own hands against the extremes of right wing politics after her daughter is killed in a mass shooting in a Pennsylvania schoolyard. Brad…
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In Review: The Week of June 1st
It’s been an important, albeit heartbreaking news week. We continue to learn from Black communities and stand together in solidarity against anti-Black racism. Here’s a list of books by Black writers on All Lit Up that we hope you check out.Read on for more happenings on the blog this week.
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Chappy Hour: Morning Star Cocktail + Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
Our ALU resident drink maker is back with a refreshing summer treat and an adoring collection of poetry Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart by Beatriz Hausner (Book*hug Press).